Enthusia is an amalgamation of two former premiere cultural festivals ‘Lakshya’ and ‘Consortium’. It is a joint initiative of the departments of B.M.S, B.A.F and B.F.M of “Smt. MMK College of Commerce and Economics”.
This is the first edition of Enthusia.
Enthusia’s pre event was held on the 7th of January in Dublin Square. Street dance, PR activities, Stall games and other competitive events.
The two main days 22nd and 23rd January had various events like Finance and Corporate Management, Sports and Gaming, Literary Arts, Performing Arts and Marketing.
These widespread events provide various college students to indulge in various activities and nurture themselves.

A saga of passion, patience, and perseverance culminates, as Udaan- the flagship Entrepreneurship Summit of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council, IIM Rohtak, comes to an exhilarating end. One of the biggest in the country, Udaan consisted of two power-packed round of panel discussions, featuring founders of start-ups like Outline India, Nearbuy.com, Career Launcher, and Miko to name a few. The event also hosted Ignitus, a Business-Plan competition wherein teams from around the country presented their innovative plans before an esteemed jury of investors and mentors. The winners were Team Arth from IIT Delhi and runners up are, Cortex Technologies from BITS Pilani and won prizes worth 2.1 Lakhs and a chance at incubation & seeding support. The big draw this year was the exciting mix of speakers and panelists that Udaan hosted.

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Arvind Lal – Founder and Managing Director, Dr. Lal Path Labs
Panelists:
•Sumeet Kapur-Founder-Wellcure.com/Co-Founder -IPV/Co-Founder-Nearbuy.com
•R. Sreenivasan- Co-Founder, Career Launcher
•Abhinav Kumar- VP, Paytm& Ex-Country Head, Trivago
•PrernaMukharya- Founder, Outline India
•SnehVaswani – CEO and Founder Miko
•Rajesh Sharma- Founder-Director, LetsComply
•Pankaj Dhingra – Ex-Director, Blackrock Financial Services
•Rahul Puri – Head – Employment Relations ACCA

As India is gearing up to an ambitious GDP goal of $5 trillion by 2024, the theme for this year’s summit was ‘Entrepreneurship as the key to unlocking the $5 Trillion Economy Dream’. In 2018-19, India’s nominal GDP was Rs 190 lakh crore; at $1 at 70, which translates to $2.7 trillion. To achieve this milestone, one of the strongest force-multipliers is our innovation engine and the start-up economy. A highly invigorating and insightful discussion followed, with full engagement from each panel member.

To further the theme, the panels discussed the following:
Panel 1 – From a million-dollar idea to a billion-dollar dream! – How to improve the success rate of the Indian Start-up ecosystem to achieve the 5Tn economy dream.
Panel 2 – Looking at successful entrepreneurial societies for ways to strengthen India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
The event saw a congregation of 400+ students, faculties and entrepreneurial minds from colleges around the country at the awe-inspiring IIM Rohtak campus on 17th January 2020. The students and attendees had got a golden opportunity as they interacted with industry stalwarts and celebrated the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.

On 17th January 2020, the Annual Quiz fest of TRIVIA-The Quiz Society commenced. A couple of gripping and riveting quizzes were held. Around 120 teams from different colleges participated across ‘SWADES’-The India Quiz and ‘RANGMANCH’-The Bollywood Quiz.

The winners of SWADES were Saksham Choudhary and Shubham Jha of SGGSC, while the runner-ups were Rituraj Sharma and Rohit Lohan of SBSC and Zakir Hussain college respectively.

RANGMANCH was won by — Aayus Shukla & Amlan Sarkar of Ramjas College, while Saksham Choudhary and Vishal Singh of SGGSC and Ramjas College respectively came a close second. A combined prize of Rs. 13,000 was given to all the winners of the quiz.

The event was successfully coordinated and conducted in a structured manner under the supervision of Dr. Rashmi Mathur and Mr. Manish Kumar.

The urge to contribute to her college community while also getting herself familiarized with students with disability led Amiti Gupta, a sophomore student of English at the University of Delhi, to join project RISE. Over the course of three months, she not only formed bonds but also broke down misconceptions as she interacted with the students in the workshops she conducted as a trainer.

Reflecting on the teaching and learning experience, Amiti says, “I quickly realized that I needed to form a more humane connection with them and become friends while being professional at the same time. I got to know them on a personal level where they were comfortable enough to share with me their strengths and weaknesses. I hope Project RISE was able to better the students professional as well personal aspects increasing their confidence levels as it did mine.”

Amiti came with the thought that the students needed her help. Yet the experience has shown her how self-sufficient the students are themselves. With the hope of making a difference, Amiti is committed to the journey of enabling self- empowerment of the students.

The three day extravaganza, Symphony- The Annual Cultural Fest of Janki Devi Memorial College kick started with enlightening performances & a bulk of participation, on 8th Jan, 2020.

This year, in accordance with its theme, “The Cutting Edge”, Symphony was an amalgam of competitions and performances in their most advanced forms. This year, Symphony was celebrated not only as a fest, but as a symbol of tranquillity and unity against violence, in which students wore black throughout to support the cause. Symphony was celebrated to unite hearts with peace and harmony in the tough times of violence and brutality against educational institutions.

With around 30 events spread over three days, the first day had Munadi-The Street Play Competition as the main attraction of the day. While day 2 was full of competitions that searched for talents, highlight of the day being Footloose-The Western Dance Competition & Jhankaar-The Folk Dance Competition.

The fest had amazing food and shopping stalls set up with brands like La Pino Pizza, Burger Club, Kaarobaar, etc. with items ranging from stoles and jewellery to stationary and chocolates.
The third day of the fest began with competitions such as Aradhi-The Classical Dance Competition, Ragini-Hindustani Classical Solo Vocal, Anjali-Rangoli & Mehendi Competition, etc. and ended on an enthralling note as the one and only Jass Manak, Punjabi Singer & Song-writer sang his best compositions like Lehenga, Prada and Viah along with few Punjabi and Bollywood songs.

Symphony received a huge footfall and was celebrated with great zeal.
Overall, the fest marked a successful beginning of 2020 for Janki Devi Memorial College.

Parwarish Cares Foundation is the non-profit wing of Parwarish Institute of parenting Private Limited. This organization works with the environment of a child (namely parents and teachers) to nurture happy, healthy, responsible and unstoppable children. With its ground firmly being- supporting children to discover their inherent unlimited potential, the organization works extensively across the country. One of the major issues that can become a barrier for children to discover this ‘no-limitness’ ; is the crime of Child Sexual Abuse.
By definition, sexual abuse is the act of violating a person’s body with a sexual intent. It includes someone touching a child on their body parts; especially private parts without consent, a child being exposed to someone’s private parts online or offline without informed consent, forcing a child to have sexual intercourse, making the child watch something sexual online or offline, in person or virtually.
In India, there is a rampant upsurge in cases of child sexual abuse. Efforts to eradicate it, are thus the need of the hour.
Creating a dialogue on the intensity and severity of child sexual abuse as a crime will begin with the sensitization of the country’s population towards: the idea of sex as a normal biological need and not a taboo, the disjunction between right or wrong -morality and sex, and the need for parents and teachers to start talking to children about sex and sexuality, preceding the crime of sexual abuse.
Eradication of Child Sexual Abuse can begin only when children and caregivers are aligned to the aforementioned ideas. Parwarish Cares Foundation has created a mission to accomplish these.
The organization stands firmly on the idea that before eradicating Sexual Abuse- a structural problem, it is necessary to have a conversation on what Sexual Abuse actually implies and more importantly, where it stems from. In the quest to do this, the organization has launched its powerful campaign called ‘AAO BAAT KAREIN”, with the objective of eradicating all kinds of sexual abuse from the country by the year 2030.
We are celebrating the coverage of the Aao Baat Karein Campaign at Parwarish Cares Foundation. Through its workshops, by November 30th, the campaign has covered One lakh Six thousand, two hundred and thirty two children (1,06,232), 4500 teachers, 4500 parents, more than 500 caregivers, and counselors across various states of India. This includes government schools, private schools, non-government organizations, cities, sub urban areas, villages and public spaces across the country. The Aao Baat Karein campaign also launched its street theatre project, that translated the session into a ‘nukkad naatak’ which was performed and accepted generously in several public spaces in Delhi including Connaught Place, Palika Bazar and so on. It is currently ready for its second season with several performances in schools across the city in association with Tagore International School.

This campaign covers a lot of aspects which serve to make it a unique experience.
1. Trainers and educators get trained in the module and are equipped to tweak/modify it as per the children they cater to. Our module and presentation with a poster on the same are given to the teachers after the session so that it can be consistently carried out with children.
2. Participants dialogue about ‘why’ there is a need to talk about sexual abuse and its eradication and ‘how’ to go about it.
3. Participants/Children get aware of the various kinds of myths about sexual abuse that surround us. They get a glimpse of the reality of the prevalence of child sexual abuse through actual facts from reliable sources.
4. Children/participants are introduced to and understand the meaning of an ‘Unsafe’ touch and its difference from the otherwise taught ‘Bad touch’. This is a completely new addition to modules on sexual abuse.
5. Participants/Children are trained/ empowered to say NO- through a process of experiential learning, where they learn of the power of this word. Unless and until each person experiences the power of this through a process specifically designed for the session, the session does not progress forward.
6. Children get acquainted with the numerous ways and situations that can be of sexual abuse in their own lives and the several helpline numbers they can contact on.
7. Children/ participants demarcate between sexual abuse that happens via physical contact and that which happens without physical contact (Non- contact sexual abuse).
8. Children/ participants see in reality how a person facing sexual abuse would feel and the environment to be created around this person to empower them to deal with the trauma and effects of sexual abuse.
To know more about this powerful campaign, visit the site www.parwarishcares.org and become a champion contributor for this cause by clicking HERE!

On 11th November, RamComm the Commerce society of Ramanujan College successfully organised its annual bidding and auctioning event “Bid for Dead”.

The event was well received not just among the Ramanujan College student body but also got popular among students from all across the University.

Bid for Dead 3.0 was sponsored by over 20 firms/establishments/companies which contributed to taking the prize money to Rs.1.25 lacs.

The event was a 3 round competition wherein thr first two rounds were of elimination nature , namely questionnaire and case study competition while the last and final round came as bidding and auctioning of companies.

The winner of the event was Akash Jha of Ramanujan College.

The participants and members of the organising team went back thoroughly energised to bring back an even better version of the same in the next year